Datong

Datong is a city in Shanxi Province, . Datong offers convenient transportation, relatively low prices, a good environment, and numerous tourist attractions, making it one of the most worthwhile tourist destinations in North China.
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  • Type: City with 3,320,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China
  • Also known as: “Dagu”, “Datong (Shanxi Sheng, China)”, “Datong City”, “Datong Shi”, “Datun”, “Ta-jen”, “Ta-jen-hsien”, “Ta-ku”, “Ta-t’ung”, “Ta-t’ung-hsien”, “Ta-t’ung-shih”, and “平城”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shanhua Temple and Drum Tower.

Buddhist temple
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is a Buddhist located in Datong, Shanxi Province, . The temple was first founded during the early 8th century of the Tang dynasty, but its earliest surviving building dates from the 11th century.

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Buddhist temple
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or Huayan Monastery is a located in Datong, , China. has been burned down and rebuilt several times. The Daxiongbao Hall and Cangjing Ge still preserve the architectural style of the Liao and Jin dynasties.

Datong

Latitude
40.0923° or 40° 5′ 32″ north
Longitude
113.2953° or 113° 17′ 43″ east
Population
3,320,000
Elevation
1,054 metres (3,458 feet)
Named after
因大同川而得名，并取“天下大同之意”
IATA airport code
DAT
United Nations Location Code
CN DAT
Open location code
8PGM37RW+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244077962
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2037799
Wiki­data ID
Q72877
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Datong” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Datong”
  • Arabic: “داتونغ”
  • Armenian: “Դատուն”
  • Asturian: “Datong”
  • Basque: “Datong”
  • Belarusian: “Датун”
  • Bengali: “ডাটং”
  • Bengali: “তাটং”
  • Bengali: “তাথুং”
  • Bengali: “দাটং”
  • Breton: “Datong”
  • Bulgarian: “Датун”
  • Catalan: “Datong”
  • Cebuano: “Datong Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Datong”
  • Chinese: “Dàtóng Shì”
  • Chinese: “Tāi-tông-chhī”
  • Chinese: “大同”
  • Chinese: “大同市”
  • Croatian: “Datong”
  • Czech: “Ta-tchung”
  • Danish: “Datong”
  • Dutch: “Datong”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داتونج”
  • Esperanto: “Datong”
  • Esperanto: “Datongo”
  • Finnish: “Datong”
  • French: “Datong”
  • Gan Chinese: “大同市”
  • Georgian: “ტათუნგი”
  • German: “Datong”
  • Greek: “Ντάτονγκ”
  • Gujarati: “ડાટોંગ”
  • Hebrew: “דאטונג”
  • Hindi: “दातुंग”
  • Hindi: “दातोंग”
  • Hungarian: “Tatung”
  • Indonesian: “Datong”
  • Interlingua: “Daido”
  • Interlingua: “Datong”
  • Irish: “Datong”
  • Italian: “Datong”
  • Japanese: “大同市”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾಟೊಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Датун”
  • Kikuyu: “Datong”
  • Korean: “다퉁 시”
  • Korean: “다퉁시”
  • Latvian: “Datonga”
  • Latvian: “Datuna”
  • Lithuanian: “Datongas”
  • Macedonian: “Датонг”
  • Malagasy: “Datong”
  • Malay: “Datong”
  • Marathi: “डाटोंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi-dùng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-tông-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Датун”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Datong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Datong”
  • Norwegian: “Datong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Datong”
  • Persian: “داتونگ”
  • Polish: “Datong”
  • Portuguese: “Datong”
  • Russian: “Датун”
  • Serbian: “Датунг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Datong”
  • Sinhala: “ඩේටොන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Datong”
  • Spanish: “Datong”
  • Swedish: “Datong Shi”
  • Swedish: “Datong”
  • Tagalog: “Datong”
  • Tamil: “டாடாங்”
  • Tatar: “Датуң”
  • Telugu: “డాటోంగ్”
  • Thai: “ต้าทง”
  • Turkish: “Datong”
  • Uighur: “داتۇڭ شەھىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Датун”
  • Urdu: “داتونگ”
  • Venetian: “Datong”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Đồng, Sơn Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Đồng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Datong”
  • Welsh: “Datong”
  • Wu Chinese: “大同市”
  • Yue Chinese: “大同”

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